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...care for Miss Vaill's performance. She remains far too sane and above the action of the play, entering the games only when the script forces her to. Lacking the throughgoing cruelty of the other characters she offers nothing in its place and contributes to the dullness, soon banished, which stains the first...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: A Flea in Her Ear | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

Francine Stone presents a fine cameo as the chambermaid, as does Raye Bush as the wife of the hotel keeper. Miss Stone's encounter with the Spaniard's wife (Amanda Vaill) is one of the most skillfully done of the numerous incidents connecting life in the insurance broker's apartment and the people at the Pretty Pussy. When the women unconsciously exchange what they are carrying -- Lucienne's parasol for Eugenie's pail -- we are reminded of just how much fraud we are seeing...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: A Flea in Her Ear | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

EDWARD E. VAILL Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1965 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they get bigger steaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twelve Straight | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

REPORT OF THE COMPANY-Dudley Vaill Talcott-Random House ($3.75). A U.S. sculptor tells, in an easy conversational manner, how he bought a Norwegian sealing vessel, married the captain's daughter, conducted wealthy U. S. sportsmen on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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